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...flights, even under the disadvantage of severe winter conditions and in spite of the disturbing accidents which have in several instances resulted fatally. Those who are convinced that mail by airplane is foredoomed to failure point to the recent retirement of a British air mail concern from the cross-channel route on the ground that winter flying did not pay. Certainly aerial letter-carrying has not yet reached the point where it can be supported as a private enterprise; government aid is the only source which can keep it going. And until human ingenuity has devised some means of rapid...
What Dick promised Maisie as they sat on the beach and watched the signal rockets flare from the bridge of the "Bharralong," south-bound in the Channel chop, is fulfilled in "White Shadows of the South Seas." The fascination of strange peoples and new scenes lies at some time on every one, and among all the harvesters of exotic flowers who have written of happier climes and simpler manners, till there has been of late years no end of making books about the South Seas, Frederic O'Brien takes high place...
...such a plan from the nature of the Congressional ruling regarding military prisoners. Formerly sailors who had served a sentence at Portsmouth could not return to the service and were thrown on their recources, branded criminals often for offences of comparatively slight importance. Commander Osborne, however, secured a channel for pardons, and instilling into his men a spirit of good citizenship, sent 2700 of them back into the service, after shortened terms, during his three years in office. A very small proportion of these men, despite the prejudice in the service toward them were returned, while many rendered valuable service...
...that of France, she should respect, rather than disregard, the test put upon her friendship, so long as that test is not unreasonable. Should England resume full trade relations with Germany at the; present time, she would be signing the commercial death-warrant of the heroic nation across the Channel. France has asked bread; shall England give a stone...
...school of thought entirely opposite to the of the man the Lampoon has attacked, but at that has no assurance as to the safety of his own or any other opinion before this new intolerance. But above all he insists upon the Harvard privilege of pursuing Veritas by any channel in which there is a chance that any grain of truth may dwell. STANLEY McCLATCHIE...